12-letter words containing f, i, c, o
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- kick oneself — regret sth
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- knock it off — stop it
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- line officer — a military or naval officer serving with combatant units or warships, as distinguished from a staff officer, supply officer, etc.
- liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- microfibrils — Plural form of microfibril.
- microfibrous — Composed of microscopic fibres.
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- microfluidic — Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- microfossils — a fossil so small that it can be studied and identified only with a microscope.
- minification — The reduction in apparent size of objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- modification — an act or instance of modifying.
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- modificatory — modifying.
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- momification — the transition of a successful career woman into one who is chiefly concerned with homemaking and raising children
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- narcotraffic — Traffic in narcotics.
- nazification — to place under Nazi control or influence.
- nick of time — moment before sth is too late
- nidification — to build a nest.
- night office — the office for matins.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-codified — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- non-friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- non-specific — Non-specific medical conditions or symptoms have more than one possible cause.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
- noneffective — not effective.
- nonfictional — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
- nonfinancial — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.